PM takes stock of progress in food, fertilisers, agriculture sectors

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday took stock of the progress made on revival of three fertiliser plants, setting up of an agriculture university in Bihar and soft loans to cash-starved sugar mills as he reviewed progress made on the decisions by the Cabinet.

At the meeting of the Council of Ministers, Modi reviewed the status of implementation of the several key Cabinet and CCEA decisions taken in the last 18 months related to the sectors of food, fertiliser and agriculture.

"Prime Minister also gave a pep talk to secretaries and ministers on maintaining timeline for implementation of the Cabinet decisions," sources said.

According to the sources, Prime Minister emphasised that there should not be any delay in moving fresh proposals for the Cabinet approval and the timeline should be maintained for implementation after the nod.

On progress of Cabinet decision related to sugar, Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said in the meeting that out of Rs 6,000 crore soft loan approved for sugar mills, about Rs 4,152 crore had been disbursed so far this year.